FastImage implements low-level image processing operations designed tooperate very quickly by using SIMD instructions. This is achieved bycalling the Intel IPP library. A bridge to numpy is made through the`array interface`__.

__ http://docs.scipy.org/doc/numpy/reference/arrays.interface.html

Allocation of aligned memory============================

For the SIMD instructions to perform at maximal speed, images must bealigned on 32-byte boundaries. FastImage relies on the underlyingimage processing library to allocate the memory, trusting that itknows best::